Sep Letter - We Love Lundby Club

SEPTEMBER 2007
Vo l u m e 4
Number 3
THE
OF SWEDEN
LETTER
A Quarterly Newsletter Published for Members of the We Love Lundby Club
A Bumpy Ride, But Lundby Bounces Back
HISTORY OF LUNDBY OF SWEDEN
Part V
Fifth Ten Years—1987-1997
ITHIN A FEW YEARS AFTER ITS FIRST BANKRUPTCY in 1983, Lundby had regrouped
and had relaunched several new dollhouse variations, furniture, dolls, and accessories. Later in that turbulent period, three new dollhouses captured collectors’ hearts.The
Norrland (1990); Salame & Signor (a 1990 variation of the Gothenburg dollhouse to
accompany the book of the same name); and a 1994 redesigned version of the Gothenburg
were each manufactured for only a short period of time.
Like a house of cards that could no longer bear the weight, the mistakes from overreaching during the decade of the 1980s triggered Lundby’s ultimate downfall in the early
1990s. One cannot imagine the dashed hopes that the toy world experienced when
Lundby went bankrupt for a second time in 1993.
Before Lundby folded, however, Bo Johansson, a branch manager in Lerum, offered a
set of dollhouses from the entire producing period to the Älvsborgs Länsmuseum in
Vänersborg for a symbolic amount of SEK 1.250 or USD850! The We Love Lundby Club
owes Mr. Johansson a deep debt of gratitude.
The entire production and stock went on sale to holding companies. Lundby was acquired
in 1993 by the ScanBox Danmark Group, which also owned the Brio Corporation. A 1994
Lundby catalog, which listed 124 items, was distributed by Brio. According to that catalog, all
Lundby houses and furniture were being manufactured in Sweden, whereas the dolls and small
accessories were made in Hong Kong. Approximately 30% were new and redesigned items.
In 1997 the Micki Toy Company in Gemla, Sweden, once a competitor in the dollhouse world,
obtained the rights to the Lundby name, along with the Gothenburg dollhouse and furniture.
By keeping a low profile to avoid what had happened in the past, Micki would gingerly shepherd
Lundby through the next decade into 2007. ♥
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The Salame & Signor house, shown in a
charming advertisement. From an
undated Lundby advertisement provided by Patricia Harrington.
★ A BIG PA
The Norrland, a unique A-frame dollhouse
which could be played with from all sides. From
a 1990 Lundby catalog.
The 1994 Gothenburg has some new design features, such as the shutter treatment and lighter
interior colors. From a 1994 Lundby catalog.
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Slogan created for Lundby’s 60th
Anniversary by Reina Olthof,
Kornhorn, Holland. Logo designed
by Don Christian, designer of
The Lundby Letter.
THE LUNDBY LETTER
Third Annual
WLLC
Convention
Held in Nation’s
Capital and
Suburbs
“SWEDISH
WEEKEND”
NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN.
That sums up the third annual convention of the We Love
We Love Lundby Club Convention attendees lounging in the
Lundby Club held Friday and
IKEA apartment in the Swedish Embassy on the Potomac
River in Washington, D.C. Left to right, first row: William Saturday, June 1-2. Seven
Montgomery, Carolyn Frank, Sue Morse, second row: Cheryl members and two guests
which
Miller, Jenny Richmond, Sharon Barton, and Linda Hanlon. attended the gathering,
marked the 60th anniversary of
the beginning of Lundby dollhouses in 1947. One of those guests, Carolene Haller, later
joined the club.
After a tour of Sue Morse’s dollhouse collection at her Northern Virginia home on
Friday morning, a formal meeting was held. Sue announced that her plans for the
September 2007 tour to Sweden had to be postponed until a future date. She expressed
appreciation to Scandinavian Seminars who had offered a 10-day tour; however, not
enough members signed up to make it economically feasible. All attendees shared their
“Show and Tell” and “Mystery” items.
Next, Sue distributed ballots for the Guessing Game, which included fireplaces made
by Lundby, Lisa, Caroline’s Home, Barton, Lerro, and Hanse of Denmark. Linda Hanlon
won with four correct answers out of six, breaking Roy Specht’s two-year winning streak
on the Guessing Game!
The formal meeting ended at 12:30 p.m., when the group drove to Alexandria for a
lunch and Lundby-related gift exchange at the 815 Restaurant, hosted by William
Montgomery and Carolyn Frank. After lunch, we toured Carolyn’s extensive collection
of Lundby dollhouses, as well as her Ginny doll collection.
By 4:30 p.m. the group had traveled to Georgetown in northwest D.C. to visit the beautiful new building housing the Swedish Embassy, located on the Potomac River. During
our escorted tour through the “House of Sweden,” our guide,Anna Jarborg, photographed
us in the stylish and luxurious IKEA apartment. Afterwards, we ate a delicious seafood
dinner at Tony & Joe’s restaurant along the Georgetown waterfront.
On Saturday, June 2, members attended the 138th Eastern National Antique to Modern
Doll & Toy Show in Gaithersburg, Maryland. To break up the day of vintage toy shopping, we traveled to Olney, Maryland, to experience an early Midsummer Fest at Klaradal,
Swedish Antiques and Furnishings.
Special thanks to Sue and Peter Kopperman and their son, David, for welcoming us
into the “Klaradal Family” to experience one of Sweden’s favorite celebrations. It was
great fun to watch the Kopperman’s Swedish friends, wearing floral wreaths on their
heads, dance around the Midsummer pole and sing Swedish songs.
After visiting Klaradal, it was back to the Gaithersburg show for more shopping. This
year’s convention then came to a close at a delicious dinner at the nearby Golden Bull
Restaurant. Look on the club website for additional photos from the 2007 convention. ♥
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The
Children’s
Corner
By Caitlin Butchart
Hello again, Lundby Lover’s Club!
I hope everyone has enjoyed summer
as much as I have! I decided to dedicate this article to my family rules, or
one important rule anyway!
We don’t have many rules in our
house, but the ones we do have are
kept to! We aren’t allowed a television
in our bedrooms until we’re thirteen
and we’re not allowed our own computer until we’re twelve. But the main
rule that concerns the Lundby Lovers
Club is one my sister, Brodie, has
recently overcome.
In our family we (that means Mum!)
feel it sensible to prohibit electrical
lights in our dolls’ houses until we’re
six. Transformers have to be plugged
in, after all!
Last September was Brodie’s sixth
birthday and she was very excited
because she knew she would be getting
her first dolls’ house lights. It was a
grand unveiling and they do look wonderful.
As I’ve gotten older, the importance
of rules for living becomes clearer to
me. They are not just to make parents’
lives easier, but they also keep us safe
and ensure that we can all live peacefully together! I don’t think anyone
anywhere completely agrees with all
the rules they have, but some of them
make life all the more special.
I was thinking about rules because
I’m coming up to thirteen soon, and I
reckon I’m due a TV! ♥
Thanks for reading, Caitlin
FEEDBACK
Patricia Harrington wrote that she now believes the swimmer dolls
(see article in June 2007 newsletter) were made by Plasty in Germany. At the time
the package in the photo was distributed, Plasty was made by Hückel Co. Early
Caroline’s Home/Barton dolls also had similar positioning of the arms.
After we published a method of accessing more Lundby items in the last issue of
The Lundby Letter, Patricia emailed that she has yet another method that one has only
to execute once to get even more Lundby. Be sure to follow the steps to “Lundby
Heaven.” shown on the club website under “eBay Tips.” ♥
Photo by Sue Morse
Photo by Anna Jarborg
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House of Sweden
September 2007
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I’M SURE ALL LUNDBY COLLECTORS subscribe to the thought,“We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing,” written by C.
Wyatt Runyan. Here, here!
♥
Scandinavian Design in the Dolls’ House:
1950–2000, the long-anticipated book by
Yvette Wadsted, Sweden, is so near publishing that it’s listed on www.amazon.co.uk
/Scandinavian-Design-Dolls-House-19502000. Be sure to keep watching for the
book’s publication date.
♥
Renee Ganim, NY, took pity on Sue
Morse’s constantly losing out at the end of
so many eBay items by bidding the highest on a Mona doll to give to her as a gift!
Mona is now a happy grand dame in Sue’s
Lundby Manor house. Thanks, Renee.You
are a super eBay seller and friend!
♥
Now that’s entertainment! Charlene Williams, FL, captured some screen shots of
Lundby furniture—the stereo cabinet,
stereo and speakers, and the Romance
armchair—from the “Charlie and Lola”
British animated TV series, which is a
favorite of her daughter, Joelle. Photo by
Charlene Williams.
♥
New member Susan Baumgarten, FL,
writes that she wants the vintage garden/
yard driveway and an extension (her third)
for her Gothenburg. Originally purchased
for her daughter in 1978, Susan is now
having a wonderful time furnishing the
dollhouse even more extensively than it
was in the 1970s.
♥
Remember Carolene Haller,VA, who wanted to sell her 1970s Lundby Gothenburg
in the June issue? After attending the June
meeting of the WLLC, Carolene not only
decided to keep her house, but she also
joined the WLLC!
♥
Our 60th member, Karen Johnson, contacted us because her business in the UK,
Kittys Cavern Limited, will be stocking
Lundby items basically because her daugh-
ter loves them. Karen also plans to venture
into vintage collectible items as well.Visit
her website at www.kittyscavern.com.
♥
Would you like to join a cruise of the
Christmas Markets along the Rhine
November 29 to December 10, 2007? For
details, contact Molly Cromwell, a noted
dollhouse and miniatures travel consultant,
at [email protected].
♥
Jamie’s Miniatures Presents the Second
Annual Bewitching Fall Classic Miniatures, Dolls and Teddy Bears Show,
October 7 at the Belfast Curling Club,
Route 3 (211 Belmont Avenue) in Belfast,
ME 04915. For information, contact,
Jamie’s Miniatures at [email protected]
or 1-207/338-0516.
learning more from Marion, please email
her at [email protected]. Even
though Marion recently underwent surgery, she is celebrating an all clear from
the hospital by starting on a huge project
of cataloguing Doltoi sets.
♥
A miniatures collector in Alexandria,VA,
made contact a few months ago about selling her collection. She doesn’t have any
Lundby items, but if you are interested in
other fine miniatures, please contact Ruth
Bruder at 703/768-4992. At 93 years
young, she is an excellent example of
someone who has not stopped playing!
Photo by Sue Morse.
♥
WLLC Advisory Member, Marion Osborne, UK, has written three texts on
dollhouses, all of which contain copies of
actual catalogues, advertisements, and
other documents. If you are interested in
♥
High on the Cloud Bathrooms
By Sue Morse
Ever since October 2000 when I saw the blue cloud
bathroom in a Lundby dollhouse at the Vänersborgs
Museum exhibit, I’ve wanted one.Who wouldn’t also
love to own a life-size version of this Lundby bathroom? One could easily get whisked away to dreamland!
The MIP set shown in the photo was also produced
in pink, the same blue background with clouds, but
pink facilities, as shown in the photo of the carton for
the Lundby apartments.Yet another version was produced with pink clouds on a white background. So
far I own only the bathtub from the latter set, thanks The blue cloud bathroom set #8870
sold by Lundby in the early 1980s.
to Patricia’s astute bidding on Tradera. ♥
Photo by Patricia Harrington
Lundby Connections
“Swedish Childhood” Favorites Wanted for Photo Contest
, “It’s Never Too Late to Have a Swedish Childhood,”
Rsary?theSuggested
runner-up in our contest last year to find a slogan for Lundby’s 60 anniverby Jenni Nolan, Ireland, this motto won a special place in our hearts,
EMEMBER THE LOVELY THOUGHT
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and will become our slogan for 2008.To learn more about Jenni’s Lundby collection,
read the Members in Focus article on page 6.
Whether you are in your first, second, or even third childhood, you are invited to
enter the club’s 2007 “Swedish Childhood” contest. Please send still photos or digital
images of your special favorites from Lundby’s furniture or accessories, and you could
be the winner of a fabulous prize and see your photo published in the December
issue of The Lundby Letter. Runners-up in the contest will be used on the club website during next year.
Send all entries, with a description of the item, to [email protected] by Friday,
November 16. Good luck! ♥
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THE LUNDBY LETTER
Andrea Calls on Patricia
Photo by Andrea Voinot
By Andrea Voinot
Andrea, at left, beams during her visit to see
Patricia’s collection. Shown is a 1955 Brio house,
filled with old Lerro and Lundby furniture, from
Patricia’s collection. The older houses are
Andrea’s favorites.
about
eBay is getting to know Lundby collectors throughout the world. I have won
several items from Patricia Harrington on
eBay, and as many know, she is incredibly
generous with all kinds of information. So
when our family planned a trip to Maine
in May, I asked Patricia if I might come see
her collection and meet her.
Maine was incredible, but the day we
spent together was the highlight of my
O
NE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
Lundby Accessories
Resemble Real Life in
Sweden
Photo by Elisabeth Lantz
In addition to Swedish Strawberry Cake,
highlighted in the logo for the 60th
anniversary of Lundby of Sweden, Lundby
created another favorite accessory for the
Lundby dollhouse from Swedish ovens, the
Sugar Cake (Sockerkaka in Swedish). One
can hardly differentiate the real from the
miniature cake.
Just as you received a recipe for Swedish
Strawberry Cake along with the June 2007
issue, here is a copy of a recipe submitted
by Elisabeth Lantz, Sweden, and translated by Patricia Harrington. ♥
The Lundby version of Swedish sugar cake is now very rare.
It was produced and sold for only two years, and is shown in
coffee set #6604 in the 1974 and 1975 catalogs.
trip. Patricia has an amazing collection.
She very sweetly set up about 30 of her
houses for me to look at (they were everywhere!) and patiently answered my endless
questions about the things I had never
seen. I loved her Caco and Erna Meyer
dolls and the early Lerro and Lundby furniture. My favorite houses were the older
ones from the 1960s and early 1970s –
Lundby, Brio, Lisa, Hanse, and VERO – but
they were all great to see.
The afternoon went much too quickly
and I had to tear myself away to get to the
airport on time. I continue to think about
all of Patricia’s treasures, and I continue to
rely on her whenever I have a Lundby
question. THANKS, PATRICIA! ♥
Editor’s Note: Andrea Voinot, Berkeley, CA, visited
Patricia Harrington in Maine for a whole day May 24
to tour her collection of more than 30 houses, including
Lundby from the mid-1960s to the 2006 Småland,
Brio, Micki Gemla, Lisa, and Hanse, plus three
German houses in 1/12th scale. Contact Patricia at
[email protected] if you are in the market for a
Smäland house, addition, and garden MIB. It would
make a wonderful Christmas present!
SUGAR CAKE RECIPE FROM
ELISABETH LANTZ
En vanlig god och enkel sockerkaka.
DU BEHÖVER:
3 ägg
3 dl socker
2 tsk vaniljsocker
75 g margarin eller smör
1 dl vatten
3 dl vetemjöl
2 tsk bakpulver
GÖR SÅ HÄR:
1. Smörj och bröa en hålform, ca 1 1/2
liter. Sätt ugnen på 175 grader.
2.Vispa ägg och socker vitt och pösigt
med elvisp.
3. Tillsätt vaniljsocker och bakpulver
och rör ut med elvisp.
4. Tillsätt vetemjölet och rör försiktigt
med elvispen.
5. Smält matfettet, häll i vatten och låt
koka upp. Häll sedan det i smeten och
vispa till en jämn smet. Så fort smeten
är jämn så häll smeten i formen och
ställ direkt in den i ugnen.
6. Grädda i nedre delen av ugnen i 175
grader, ca 45 minuter.
7. Låt kakan svalna i formen en liten
stund. Stjälp sedan upp den. Låt kakan
kallna under formen. (Kakan går att
frysa.)
OF SWEDEN
Memories are
Made of Lundby
Claudia Kreda, NY, says she must
be going through a mid-life crisis,
trying to recapture her childhood
by searching for Lundby dollhouses. Her fondest memories were of
playing with her dollhouse, creating stories, making clothes from
scraps of fabric from her mother’s
sewing box, molding food out of
colored clay, and making grocery
bags for the food for the dolls to
bring home from the market.
Sharing all of these memories
with WLLC members from all
over the world makes her realize
that she isn’t alone. ♥
TRANSLATION & CONVERSION BY PATRICIA HARRINGTON
3 large eggs, at room temperature
1 1/3 C granulated sugar
1/3 C butter (5.5 Tablespoons)—butter important for flavor
1/3 C water
1 T vanilla extract *
1 1/3 C cake flour—gives better texture than regular flour, but
the latter can be used.
2 tsp. baking powder
1. grease a tube or bundt pan, 1-1.5 quart size. Then sprinkle
loosely with the finest grade unflavored commercial bread crumbs;
invert pan and tap to remove excess crumbs.
2. set oven to 350° F.; move oven rack to lowest third of oven.
3. melt butter in the water and heat until beginning to boil.
4. beat the eggs and sugar with an electric mixer on medium-high
speed until mixture is light and airy and pale yellow.
5. add baking powder and gently blend in.
6. add flour and mix in gently with mixer until just blended—do
NOT beat.
7. pour in butter and hot water mixture and mix until smooth—
do NOT beat.
8. immediately pour into cake pan and place in the oven. Bake
approx. 45 minutes until just done—place finger on top of cake; if
indentation springs back, cake is done. Do not over bake.
9. let the cake cool slightly in the pan. Then invert onto a cooling
rack and allow cake to slide out of pan, but keep pan over the cake
while it cools completely. Freezes well.
*If you have Swedish vanilla-sugar, use 2 tsp. instead of the vanilla extract—add to mixture at the same time as the baking powder, & add 1 T water to the water-butter solution.
Vanilla sugar can be purchased at IKEA stores or at Scandinavian food shops.This cake
is good by itself with coffee or it can be served with fruit or fruit sauce, whipped cream if
desired.The variations are quite like what can be done with angel-food cake.
September 2007
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Transformers, Where Art Thou?
By Sue Morse
he vintage Lundby 4-volt transformer,
which provides a safe and convenient AC
power source for collectors wanting to light
up their dollhouses, is becoming quite scarce.
Lundby began producing transformers in
the 1960s to match the electrical systems in
all their markets. According to Patricia
Harrington, the European-style transformer
shows up often in Sweden and Europe, but
they simply cannot be used in the US, even
with an adapter plug. As a result, US-formatted transformers are becoming increasingly
difficult to find at reasonable prices. Working
vintage transformers listed on eBay are
inevitably sold for high prices. Recently a US
transformer sold for $55.00, plus shipping
costs. Some have exceeded $100.00.
T
This drawing of the Continental, UK, and
US/Canadian plug-in transformers help the
collector know which one to purchase. Illustration courtesy of
www.cir-kitconcepts.com.
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Lundby Apartments
Created and Marketed
in Europe
“KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF” was Lundby’s
middle name in the 1980s. Jauntily wallpapered room boxes, which could be
arranged in many different combinations,
were introduced in 1982 onto the dollhouse stage in Europe. No evidence exists
that they were ever exported worldwide
nor do they appear in any catalogs.
WLLC members Elisabeth Lantz and
Patricia Harrington each recently acquired
a set of the Lundby apartments, and photos
of Patricia’s furnished boxes appear on Elisabeth’s website, www.swedish-dollshouses.com.
Patricia explains, “It was clever of Lundby
to make room boxes for Western Europe,
since they are common there, and could be
used individually or together.”
Each box consists of two square rooms,
which can be arranged either one on top
of the other, as shown in the photo of the
furnished boxes, or sitting side by side.
Another photo shows the carton, marketed in France, with the colorful rooms
mounted on the wall. ♥
Lundby transformer
When the Micki Toy Company introduced a new series of dollhouses and
transformers in 1999, collectors soon discovered that the new transformer would
not electrify Lundby houses manufactured
prior to 1999. Conversely, Patricia has used
the older transformers successfully with
three of her post-1999 houses, making the
vintage transformers even more valuable
to the collector!
One should avoid using other types of
transformers (like for model railways) with
Lundby houses. The electrical wiring is
simply too precious to risk causing any
problems with the connections. However,
if you are fortunate to own any 4-5 volt
transformer made for Brio, Lisa, Hanse,
Caroline’s Home, or Micki Gemla dollhouses, you can use these risk-free with
your vintage Lundby houses.
The WLLC is pleased to announce that
more US transformers will soon be available. Patricia, who became aware of a
Danish firm that made the North American transformer for Lundby, has been
researching for several months to find a
way for US and Canadian collectors to buy
transformers for their vintage Lundby hous-
An orange Brio transformer that can also be
used as a power source for a pre-1999 Lundby
dollhouse. Photo courtesy of Patricia
Harrington.
es. She put Cheeky Monkey Toys in touch
with a representative from the Danish firm.
Neither one of the two companies knew
about the other until Patricia brought
them together! As a result, Cheeky
Monkey Toys has arranged to import the
US transformers, and they are currently
promoting their pending arrival on their
website, www.cheekymonkeytoys.com/
ustransformer.html.
Cheers to Patricia’s entrepreneurial spirit! We wholeheartedly look forward to the
return of the 4-volt transformers. ♥
Patricia furnished her apartment as a first home
for the bridal couple (Erna Meyer dolls).
LOOKING FOR
LUNDBY?
Check out the club website at
www.toysmiles.com for Sue Morse’s
List of Vintage Lundby Items.
The French carton for the Lundby apartments
showing various arrangements. Photos by
Patricia Harrington.
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THE LUNDBY LETTER
Members in Focus
ELEVENTH IN A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS
By Sue Morse
for the first face-toface international meeting of two We Love Lundby Club
members, Jenni Nolan, Ireland, and me. Jenni traveled from her
home in an area of Dublin called Glenageary to meet for tea at
the Four Seasons Hotel, the last stop on my May 2007 tour of
Ireland. As Jenni said, “The first international meeting was in a
very glamorous location, even if you had to do all the jet-setting!”
I recognized her right away because she was wearing her
heart-shaped club pin, and she had that happy Lundby smile on
her face. During our visit, I learned that Jenni is relatively new
to Lundby collecting, so her enthusiasm was soaring. She couldn’t wait to show me her very first eBay purchase of Lundby, the
1970s picture of the King and Queen of Sweden, which she Jenni Nolan during her visit to share a cup of tea and Lundby stories
at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dublin, Ireland.
bought from another WLLC member, Paige Baird, UK.
Although Jenni has been collecting
trends in new houses, particularly with the
dolls and dollhouses since she was a child,
Six New Members
new Stockholm house. Because the modshe didn’t know about Lundby until she
Bring Total to 62
ern pieces were more available, she has
moved with her family from her native
purchased nearly all of them.
Australia to Ireland several years ago. Jenni
INE MONTHS INTO THE YEAR, the
Not too long ago, on another trip to
was born in Melbourne and grew up in
WLLC is 62 members strong, the
Sweden, she discovered a 1980s
the country town of Wagga Wagga.
highest membership ever. Welcome to
Stockholm dollhouse in a vintage toy
The move for her husband’s job
new members, Susan Erhlich, FL; Patrick
shop. To the embarrassment of her chilbrought about many changes to her life.
Frieslander, VA; Carolene Haller, VA;
dren, Josephine, age 16, and Joshua, age
After she settled into her new home, she
Karen Johnson, UK, Nan Cashour, MD;
14, she somehow persuaded the crew to
ventured on a holiday to Sweden in July
and
Ian Thompson, UK. Contact inforlet her take it aboard a flight back to
2001. Jenni wrote in her diary on July 13
mation
for our additional members and a
Ireland. Actually, both her children are
that she first fell under Lundby’s spell at
few
changes
are included in the
very
supportive
of
her
obsession
with
all
NK, the big department store in
September 2007 Membership Directory
things miniature, although Josephine has
Stockholm, by finding a brochure for
Update. Interested readers can obtain
threatened to write to the club, offering to
Lundby dollhouses in the toy section.
membership information by emailing Sue
form a support group for relatives of those
Friday, July 13 was a “lucky day” for Jenni.
Morse at [email protected]. ♥
afflicted with the Lundby bug!
It was love at first sight!
Jenni is grateful to all the members of
One of Jenni’s favorite things about
the We Love Lundby Club, because “the
Lundby is that the company keeps producfeeling of understanding and acceptance
ing pieces that follow the latest furnishing
you get from talking with someone who
shares the same interests and passions is
very up-lifting.” Jenni’s slogan that won
The Lundby Letter is pubPlease Share Your
lished quarterly for members of
runner-up in last year’s contest,“It’s Never
the We Love Lundby Club.
Thoughts
Too Late to Have a Swedish Childhood,”
If you have any inquiries about
an article, or if you are interis a true creation out of her devotion to
Your feedback about the club newsletter
ested in submitting a story or project of your own,
the
love
we
all
share
for
the
Swedish
style,
and website is very important. Tell us what
please do not hesitate to write or email us.
no matter where we live in the world. ♥
you like and what you’d like us to do betTHE LUNDBY LETTER
ter. We also need to know what do you
We Love Lundby Club
would think about printing your own
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Coming Up in the
newsletter from the club website versus
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www.toysmiles.com Email: [email protected]
December 2007 Issue
receiving one in the mail. Postage costs conEditor:
Sue Morse
tinue their upward spiral, and it would save
Lundby’s Sixth Ten Years—
Advisory Members:
Kristina Aronsson
the club a great deal to post the newsletter
1997-2007
Carolyn Frank
on the website. Those who would prefer a
Patricia Harrington
Announcement of Winner of
Marion Osborne
printed copy could request one and your
Photo Contest
Peter Pehrsson
wish would be our command!
Richard Smith
What’s New At Lundby
Please send your opinions to Sue Morse
Yvette Wadsted
Design:
Don Christian
at [email protected] or send a letter to
Plans for 2008
© 2007, We Love Lundby Club. All rights reserved.
6347 Waterway Drive, Falls Church, VA
Interviews
Permission has been granted to use the Lundby logo.
22044. ♥
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